Word: rays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beginning their Golden Age, as shown by the quality of the critical essays just released under the appropriate title Arthur C. Clarke. The book is the third in a series of collected critiques on science fiction authors, which has arleady covered Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein; books on Ray Bradbury and Ursula K. LeGuin are in preparation. For all its amateur wordiness, the book reflects the vitality of this literary genre today. While mainstream short stories can scarcely find a market, sci-fi anthologies have become so numerous that it's difficult to think of new names for them...
...Technologies Corp. made an opening tender offer, the arbitragers began sinking $100 million-much of it borrowed-into purchases of B & W stock, starting at $42 a share; they quickly bought up more than a quarter of the outstanding shares. Then they sat back happily while United and J. Ray McDermott Inc. made escalating rival offers for a controlling interest in Babcock, and eventually wound up selling out to McDermott for $65 a share. Estimated profit for the lucky gamblers: about $30 million in six months...
...sportscaster Steve Fredericks has always done a super job covering Harvard hockey in the winter, but if he wants to keep up the good work announcing football games this fall, someone should tell him that the Harvard fullback's name is SCOTT Coolidge. Seems that Steve was calling him "Ray" throughout the Cornell game...
...Managing Editor of TIME is Ray Cave. After 17 years of writing and editing at SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and a stint as Acting Editorial Director of all Time Inc. publications, Cave, 48, joined TIME in 1976 as an Assistant Managing Editor. Says Editor-in-Chief Donovan: "Cave is an editor of great enterprise and imagination, and I am confident that he will continue TIME in its lively and informative ways...
...assessing political currents, Washington Governor Dixy Lee Ray also knows about the ripples on a river. For her third vacation day since taking office last January (the first two were spent fishing), the outdoors-loving Governor paddled down the Yakima River. The party of 27, including Ray's gray poodle Jacques, required four large rafts and enjoyed a luncheon of barbecued beef, avocados stuffed with shrimp, and champagne. "It was really pleasant, floating past basalt cliffs covered with lichen and watching the swallows," says Ray, 63. But near the end, the Governor got the old competitive urge and suggested...